Human Rights in Asia Film Screening: Demons in Paradise (2017)

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Sri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he flees the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North. As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil’s fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes.

Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again.

DEMONS IN PARADISE is the result of ten years of work. For the first time, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside (citation).

The film screening is followed by a commentary and Q&A session led by Professor Lars Waldorf, Essex Law School, University of Essex and a specialist in transitional justice.

This film screening event is part of the 16th Human Rights in Asia Conference 2024: Connecting the Dots of Colonial Legacies to Modern Injustices.

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